Avoiding catastrophic climate change requires the dramatic acceleration of renewable energy deployment. This expansion is already occurring, with China playing the largest role in the expansion of solar and wind energy supply chains. Several of these supply chains begin in Latin America, which leads the world in deposits of lithium, copper and other critical transition […]
In light of the rapidly rising climate change threat, emerging economies are vying to build a domestic solar industry across the value chain. Scholars have argued that industrial policy that targets manufacturing and learning from foreign direct investment (FDI) creates forward linkages in downstream segments of the supply chain in emerging economies. Recently though amid […]
In an environment characterized by rising interest rates and high uncertainty, avoiding a global recession is possible not by halting investment, but continuing to invest in public assets in the Global South. Public assets like railroads, bridges and other critical infrastructure are able not only to generate a positive yield, but also support sustainable structural […]
By Christina Duran The Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center is pleased to present the 2023 cohort of Global China Research Fellows. These six outstanding scholars from across a multitude of universities, including Boston University, Ohio State University and the University of Cape Town, have or will have completed doctoral degrees in an array […]
By Xia Li Facilities across the globe are facing climate change exposure or physical climate risks, such as sea-level rise, heat stress, wildfire and floods. In 2021, floods in Germany and China disrupted the global shipping industry. Heat stress caused substantial labor productivity loss in countries like Australia, while rising sea levels affected infrastructure investments […]
Physical climate risks, defined as risks arising from the physical effects of climate change, increasingly affect facilities worldwide across industries including foreign assets, or foreign direct investment (FDI). Despite the increasing impact of physical climate risks on firms and facilities globally, little is known about how multinational companies incorporate such risks into their overseas investment […]
China hosts over half of global coal-fired power generation capacity and has the world’s largest coal reserves. Its 2060 carbon neutrality goal will require coal-fired electricity generation to shrink dramatically, with or without carbon capture and storage technology. A new journal article published in Energies by Alex Clark and Weirong Zhang focuses on the employment […]
By Xinyue Ma At the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) this September, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced China would increase support for other developing countries in green and low-carbon energy and would not build new coal-fired power plants abroad. As the Group of 20 (G20) made similar commitments soon after in October 2021 to […]
By Bridgette Lang Over the past four months, the Fall 2021 Global China Initiative Research Colloquium has brought scholars from around the world together for a webinar series on topics related to Chinese investment, overseas financing, energy and development. In September 2021, Ying Qian kicked off the series by presenting a new working paper on […]
Many markets have multiple voluntary certification programs that sellers use to signal product or organizational quality. While previous scholarship has emphasized the potential for competition between labels, what happens when labels are viewed as complementary? In a new journal article published in the Strategic Management Journal, Xia Li and Timothy Simcoe argue there can be positive spillovers […]